Gone to Sea in a Bucket: A Harry Gilmour Novel, Book 1

Like all young men of a certain age, Harry Gilmour had his own notion of how a naval battle should be. This wasn't it. Norway, 1940: Sub Lieutenant Harry Gilmour's first encounter with battleship action is not the adventure he had hoped for. Faced with a thankless task and ill equipped to handle it, Gilmour's inexperience leads to a damning allegation. His future hangs in the balance.

A Great Yarn

It’s a great story which gives you the feeling you are in the sub with the crew. I had an expectation when I purchased the book but in reality it far ..Show More »exceeds my expectation.

The Skipper's Dog's Called Stalin: A Harry Gilmour Novel, Book 2

Spring, 1941. France has fallen but the Free French naval forces are in no mood to surrender. Royal Navy Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour is also ready for action, despite the horrors of his first taste of submarine warfare. When he is appointed as British Navy Liaison Officer aboard the Free French submarine
Radegonde, he finds it anarchic, disorientating - and very French. Within its claustrophobic confines, suspicion and misunderstanding are rife.

A cracking yarn of young submarine officers

I congratulate David Black for #2 of an elegant subsea series . Brisk, totally believable action. Lightly sketched characters. Somehow, the strategic ..Show More »and political background, the technical details and the crammed crew conditions are lightly blended into a novel of quality. I was immersed.

Turn Left for Gibraltar: Harry Gilmour, Book 3

As 1941 draws to a close, brave young men are fighting for freedom in countries across the globe. But for Sub-Lieutenant Harry Gilmour, washed up in neutral Spain alongside 'interned belligerents' from both sides of the war, hostilities have come to a pause. Before long, his unlikely comrades must once again become his enemies, and he is back at the frontline of the battle for the Mediterranean.

A brilliant story of submariners

A brilliant story of submariners base in Malta during the Second World War. With knowledge of how they operated and that of Malta flesh pots.A..Show More »lan W.